In the largest award of its kind under a relatively new state law, a former Minnesota prison inmate will receive $4.5 million dollars from the state under the “Imprisonment and Exoneration Remedies Act.”
That law was passed in 2014 and took effect in 2016. The $4.5 million award is more than four times larger than the previous largest amount.
“This is the biggest that we have had, and hopefully we never have any this big again,” Senator Doron Clark, DFL-Minneapolis, said of the award that passed with nearly unanimous votes in the House and Senate in the final days of the 2026 session. Governor Tim Walz signed the bill last week…